There’s always a new one coming out. The promise of something different is exciting. If you enjoyed last year’s effort, then perhaps the new one will be even better. If you didn’t, then perhaps they’ve fixed all of the terrible problems it had. You can’t trust the demo. One match on standard difficulty is never […]

I was vaguely interested in giving Diablo 3 a try, but Blizzard are still asking £45 for it. These action RPGs are something I approach pretty casually – I’m not going to play solidly for weeks finding the optimum DPS builds for different classes, I’m just happy to charge through the game once or twice […]

A few years ago I reviewed a game called King of the Road. My main motivation for doing so was that it seemed like quite an original idea, and the prospect of doing some normal, open-world driving without distractions like speed boosts, handbrake turns and jumps was fairly appealing. Unfortunately the game was a bit […]

Hi and welcome to the latest in our ongoing series of game discussions. This time we thought we’d try ourselves against a big-name, relatively recent title. If (like us) you live under a rock and don’t keep up with modern gaming, Mass Effect is an action-RPG from the prolific Bioware. It uses third-person cover-shooter type […]

We’re Going back to Solstheim And it looks like there’s some Morrowind-style buildings. iirc some Dunmer fled there after Morrowind itself got trashed. Could be a good way of appealing to player nostalgia, without having to do a full-game-sized landmass. I’ve held off from expansions so far, after spending far too much time playing Skyrim […]

So a while back I wrote about my disillusionment with action-rpgs. Well, lately I had another go at Torchlight and thoroughly enjoyed it. This is, frankly, a bit confusing. At its heart its exactly the same thing as Titan Quest or Diablo 2. Hours of dashing around click click clicking firing off the same 2 […]

Online multiplayer remains relatively unexplored territory for FFG. In recent months we’ve been making attempts to rectify the situation, albeit with very little success. Several hours, for example, were spent tinkering with network and router settings in the hope of getting Rise of the Triad deathmatch to work on DOSBox (which it did, eventually, but […]

So thanks to the Steam Sale I finally caved and got Skyrim. And am trying not to play for 6 hours every day. It doesn’t radically change the Elder SCrolls formula but continues to tweak and modernise it, whilst providing the same amazingly compelling sandbox style play. So I’ll find myself on a mission to […]

Lately I’ve been getting the bad feeling that I’ve lost interest in action-rpgs. I say “bad” because it’s meant to be one of the topics I write about here. To be clear I’m not giving up on RPGs in general, just that click-to-kill sort, influenced in the past decade by Diablo 2. See, last year […]

So I finally finished Limbo. My feelings are a bit uncertain. Gameplay-wise it’s very well crafted. Given some puzzle it’s usually fairly clear what your overall goal is – you just need to figure out how to make that happen, from fairly simple elements (reversing gravity, a bear trap, some crates). The puzzles also feel […]